After typing that, I realized no, I'm not sure. I'd thought that Germany, Italy and possibly Spain were like that, as well as the Scandanavian countries.
It has always seemed to me that in France the looters are winning
And just like in the book, they're "winning". As an example, there's a huge public service campaign now trying to "guilt" landlords into building ADA like features into appartments. The ads feature things like "she's 90 years old and lives on the fifth floor without an elevator". I say they're "winning" because just like in AS, it's their own high minded policies which cause this. French appartments are rent controlled, once you sign the contract your rent can only go up by a minimally, govt approved amount (I think it's 2.5%). Further, people can't be evicted except under extreme circumstances and the elderly and infirm are almost completely exempted from those. In short, there's a motivation NOT to build elevators since you can only try and encourage the old to leave and bring in new tenants at market rates.
You're right though, France is a looters paradise. Want to see Ayn Rand's prediction come true, keep watching France as the baby boom generation retires and the well runs dry.
shouldn't it be the store's since they're the one who set the actual selling price?
Doesn't apply in France since, as in much of the EU, prices are fixed by the govt at MSRP in the name of "price parity". True advertised sales are allowed twice per year (3 weeks in each august and feb) and things are occasionally marked down but it's truly rare.
Since we're $7 trillion and change in the hole already, do we have any business even talking about this? We ran $500 billion over budget last year, a new record. Want to see if we can break that? How about this for a novel idea: stop spending money on these little adventures and charging it off til the future, sooner or later the future will arrive...
How about thinning down the non-combat support types in the military
I've always thought there should be no such thing as "rear-echelon" or "non-combat" troops- well, maybe chaplins. The idea of a front line pretty much ended on v.j. day; korea, vietnam, gulf I & II, somalia and all the others have been against scattered insurgents. I think the enlistment contract needs to be rewritten to say "YOU MAY BE SHOT AT! Accept this or leave quietly now" If nothing else, this should have been painfully obvious with what's-her-name from last year, you know, the chick who "joined for college money and ended up as "ms. world famous POW".
and you're out if you don't meet physical training standards
A couple years ago, the feel-good crowd at NPR was comparing OTH discharges for reservists - the Marine reserves as compared to the other N.G. and reserves. They were horrified that the marines would discharge a higher percentage "other than honorable" for things like fitness and attendance and wanted them to "be more like the others", I figure I was the only one listening who wanted the others to act more like the Marines.
Instead, they should spend their research money building these. Except they would make you polish every bit of it to a shine and take it completly apart for servicing every 10 days. No thanks, btdt.
Too bad you never grew up enough to use the word "fuck" without asterisks.
You know, it's funny that way. While speaking, fuck just finds it's way into any sentence (job interviews are a real bitch to get through), but when writing, I seem to go back and change it to f***.
Since I've seemed to replace half the words and most punctuation with the word f*** when speaking. I f***ing knew my filthy f***ing mouth would f***ing come in f***ing handy one f***ing day. Mom will be so proud.
They're not watchmakers either since JPL has ordered specially-modified mechanical watches. Since they were also presumably ordering some custom software, this should have been in the list.
IV. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
I don't see anything about "unless we think you're a drug dealer" or "null and void if we accuse you of terrorism" so there were protections there at one time.
VI In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.
Seems to me that stashing people it Guantanamo bay runs afoul of this one.
The grandparent was correct - the executive branch is ignoring the constitution and unfortunately, SCOTUS is sleeping through this.
Come up on a streak as a dealer where you're paying out through the nose, Guido the pit boss will have you take the day off...
Hell, that was trackable way before computers, let alone RFID tags...
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I doubt they care too much if you take the chips out of the casino. After all, chips that go away don't have to be converted back into cash -- it's just that much extra profit
Sort of, but thanks to the nightmare of "accounting for a gaming industry" it's actually more profitable to just hoover the money out of them - it's much less headache that way.
What they should do is require all the employees to enter through a "decontamination" room
The one I worked for was even "better", every square inch under multiangle video, well, except for the bathrooms of course. I worked in the back office and rarely made it into the actual casino but every nose scratch and testical itch made me self conscious... Maybe you get used to it.
I've nothing constructive to add, but I had to say "Amen brother". The whining here reminds me of growing up in the rust belt seeing "Hungry? Eat your import" bumper stickers holding together rotted old ford trucks.
My wife and I live in Silicon Valley,
you can't live well here on 10k/year.
This problem is not my fault,
You know, there are less expensive places to live, hell, most of the continental US has to be cheaper than Silicon Valley. You claim, and rightly so, that you can't live there on 10k or even 50k per year, did you ever think that maybe it's time to pack it in and move somewhere cheaper? The not my fault line is a crock. Unless you're indentured to the land, and slavery was abolished many years ago, you're free to leave for greener pastures.
I'm looking at the same situation next june, I'd love to stay in Boulder but if it comes down to it, I may pack up and head back to NE Ohio, where the cost of living is feasable.
Am I the only one who doesnt see this as a huge problem? I could be missing something though.....
Guess it depends on what you're doing with it. I bet the marketing department of my first real job (a casino) would have problems with it - what else could you show in casino ads? I'd guess that banks, car dealers and especially those check cashing/usury lenders in the hood would like to do the same.
The problems are, the law defines how currency may and may not be reproduced and this goes beyond the law, it's not up to adobe to enforce the law, and since there are plenty of legitimate uses for photoshopping currency it's a crippled version that is apparently not disclosed anywhere external.
What's next? You want to outlaw sticks and fire, too?
Baseball bats. I want an outright ban on the private ownership of baseball bats or, failing that, strict registration, mandatory training and a 7 day waiting period for new baseball bat purchases. I propose the following:
No one individual needs a baseball bat. It is impossible to play baseball by yourself. Teams, businesses with batting cages, and other sanctioned organizations will be permitted to purchase bats. Bats must be inventoried and records routinely submitted to law enforcement. Bats must be securely stored at all times and users must be supervised by a licensed staff member.
Baseball bats are used in many senseless acts of violence each year. How many more people must be bludgeoned to death before we act on this threat? Further, I propose that toy bats (so called "Whiffle bats") be banned as they send the wrong message to our children.
IIRC, this was discussed on/. a couple weeks ago (I'm too lazy to look it up) but the main points were
simplicity (even the most brain dead induhvidual can send a fax)
legal weight (I think US Courts recognize faxes as legal documents)
FCC minimum service standards of 1200 baud(2 years ago there were places in Colorado, ~30 miles from denver which couldn't get dial up but could send and recieve faxes)
You have such a gun culture (well in some parts at least), and then wonder why shootings occur
Except that when guns were more common we didn't have these types of actions, it's not the device but something in the people.
When my dad grew up (b 1944), every hardware store and mass merchant sold guns and ammunition freely. Kids grew up with guns all around, got their own rifles at a young age, hunted after school, shot rats at the dump, you get the idea - they were everywhere. How many mass shootings occurred then?
When I grew up, they were more restricted - the 68 GCA had passed barring under 18 sales and limiting firearms dealers. My friends still hunted after school sometimes and several trucks in the high school parking lot would have a rifle in the back window. Shooting comps were not an activity where I lived but they existed. Again, how many shootings were there in that timeframe?
OK, flash forward to todays school kids. We have zero tolerence on "weapons" in schools - kids have been suspended for bringing butter knives. Rifle Team - long gone. Thanks to the brady bunch and PETA hunting isn't allowed to be mentioned. Even think about firearms in school and you'll probably be expelled. Hell, kids are disciplined for pointing their fingers at each other and yelling "bang".
By your standards, since we've taken huge steps to eliminate the "gun culture" today the streets of 1944 should have run red with blood while today kids should be playing marbles or some other non violent game.
suspect a lot of them wouldn't be able to steal a car if it were0 locked and properly secured. There's a certain amount of skill in that.
That's only become true in the last few years. Alarms and ignition disablers, both factory and aftermarket, means it now takes quite a bit of knowledge to get the expensive cars. Prior to that it was a trivial exercise. This brings us to point two:
Not much is required to threaten someone with a gun and take their keys.
Exactly, however the risk to both parties increases. Carjacking came about because of the items installed above, alarms and ignition disablers. When people could just drive off with them, they did.
And actually I think for most criminals the last thing they want is to take a hostage.
I believe that too, I think they'd rather just take the car. I'm afraid that the escalation to remote trackers and disablers however will cause an escalation in theft tactics. Now, you can leave them on the street and get away, once these become more common that won't be an option.
I'm not trying to justify theft or say you shouldn't be allowed to protect your stuff. Auto theft is expensive for everyone but I'd rather stop the arms race now before we're driving around with flamethrowers or the like.
In Washington DC when the orange alert hit last week in certain areas they were stopping everyone at random and searching their cars. No suspicion of anything, just fishing.
Welcome to Amerika.
Da, and the system is good, no?
I've been out of the country for the last few years, due to come back in july. While I've tried to keep up, I'm left wondering how many things like this will surprise me.
I doubt most car-jackers want to become hostage-takers. No reason why the presence of the car owner should prevent the police from accessing the speed limiter.
Technically true, but, with car jackers, you're standing on the sidewalk as I'm speeding away, there's nothing preventing a phone call. If I've taken you hostage, do you really think I'm going to let you call anyone?
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After typing that, I realized no, I'm not sure. I'd thought that Germany, Italy and possibly Spain were like that, as well as the Scandanavian countries.
And just like in the book, they're "winning". As an example, there's a huge public service campaign now trying to "guilt" landlords into building ADA like features into appartments. The ads feature things like "she's 90 years old and lives on the fifth floor without an elevator". I say they're "winning" because just like in AS, it's their own high minded policies which cause this. French appartments are rent controlled, once you sign the contract your rent can only go up by a minimally, govt approved amount (I think it's 2.5%). Further, people can't be evicted except under extreme circumstances and the elderly and infirm are almost completely exempted from those. In short, there's a motivation NOT to build elevators since you can only try and encourage the old to leave and bring in new tenants at market rates.
You're right though, France is a looters paradise. Want to see Ayn Rand's prediction come true, keep watching France as the baby boom generation retires and the well runs dry.
Doesn't apply in France since, as in much of the EU, prices are fixed by the govt at MSRP in the name of "price parity". True advertised sales are allowed twice per year (3 weeks in each august and feb) and things are occasionally marked down but it's truly rare.
You're kidding right? You do understand that congress votes to approve the budget and the bastards managed to work their own pet projects.
Since we're $7 trillion and change in the hole already, do we have any business even talking about this? We ran $500 billion over budget last year, a new record. Want to see if we can break that? How about this for a novel idea: stop spending money on these little adventures and charging it off til the future, sooner or later the future will arrive...
I'm a little more concerned about what goatse.cx guy will, er, come with...
I've always thought there should be no such thing as "rear-echelon" or "non-combat" troops- well, maybe chaplins. The idea of a front line pretty much ended on v.j. day; korea, vietnam, gulf I & II, somalia and all the others have been against scattered insurgents. I think the enlistment contract needs to be rewritten to say "YOU MAY BE SHOT AT! Accept this or leave quietly now" If nothing else, this should have been painfully obvious with what's-her-name from last year, you know, the chick who "joined for college money and ended up as "ms. world famous POW".
and you're out if you don't meet physical training standards
A couple years ago, the feel-good crowd at NPR was comparing OTH discharges for reservists - the Marine reserves as compared to the other N.G. and reserves. They were horrified that the marines would discharge a higher percentage "other than honorable" for things like fitness and attendance and wanted them to "be more like the others", I figure I was the only one listening who wanted the others to act more like the Marines.
Instead, they should spend their research money building these.
Except they would make you polish every bit of it to a shine and take it completly apart for servicing every 10 days. No thanks, btdt.
You know, it's funny that way. While speaking, fuck just finds it's way into any sentence (job interviews are a real bitch to get through), but when writing, I seem to go back and change it to f***.
Since I've seemed to replace half the words and most punctuation with the word f*** when speaking. I f***ing knew my filthy f***ing mouth would f***ing come in f***ing handy one f***ing day. Mom will be so proud.
They're not watchmakers either since JPL has ordered specially-modified mechanical watches. Since they were also presumably ordering some custom software, this should have been in the list.
I don't see anything about "unless we think you're a drug dealer" or "null and void if we accuse you of terrorism" so there were protections there at one time.
VI In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.
Seems to me that stashing people it Guantanamo bay runs afoul of this one.
The grandparent was correct - the executive branch is ignoring the constitution and unfortunately, SCOTUS is sleeping through this.
Hell, that was trackable way before computers, let alone RFID tags...
Sort of, but thanks to the nightmare of "accounting for a gaming industry" it's actually more profitable to just hoover the money out of them - it's much less headache that way.
The one I worked for was even "better", every square inch under multiangle video, well, except for the bathrooms of course. I worked in the back office and rarely made it into the actual casino but every nose scratch and testical itch made me self conscious... Maybe you get used to it.
I've nothing constructive to add, but I had to say "Amen brother". The whining here reminds me of growing up in the rust belt seeing "Hungry? Eat your import" bumper stickers holding together rotted old ford trucks.
you can't live well here on 10k/year.
This problem is not my fault,
You know, there are less expensive places to live, hell, most of the continental US has to be cheaper than Silicon Valley. You claim, and rightly so, that you can't live there on 10k or even 50k per year, did you ever think that maybe it's time to pack it in and move somewhere cheaper? The not my fault line is a crock. Unless you're indentured to the land, and slavery was abolished many years ago, you're free to leave for greener pastures.
I'm looking at the same situation next june, I'd love to stay in Boulder but if it comes down to it, I may pack up and head back to NE Ohio, where the cost of living is feasable.
Guess it depends on what you're doing with it. I bet the marketing department of my first real job (a casino) would have problems with it - what else could you show in casino ads? I'd guess that banks, car dealers and especially those check cashing/usury lenders in the hood would like to do the same.
The problems are, the law defines how currency may and may not be reproduced and this goes beyond the law, it's not up to adobe to enforce the law, and since there are plenty of legitimate uses for photoshopping currency it's a crippled version that is apparently not disclosed anywhere external.
Baseball bats. I want an outright ban on the private ownership of baseball bats or, failing that, strict registration, mandatory training and a 7 day waiting period for new baseball bat purchases. I propose the following:
No one individual needs a baseball bat. It is impossible to play baseball by yourself. Teams, businesses with batting cages, and other sanctioned organizations will be permitted to purchase bats. Bats must be inventoried and records routinely submitted to law enforcement. Bats must be securely stored at all times and users must be supervised by a licensed staff member.
Baseball bats are used in many senseless acts of violence each year. How many more people must be bludgeoned to death before we act on this threat? Further, I propose that toy bats (so called "Whiffle bats") be banned as they send the wrong message to our children.
Except that when guns were more common we didn't have these types of actions, it's not the device but something in the people.
When my dad grew up (b 1944), every hardware store and mass merchant sold guns and ammunition freely. Kids grew up with guns all around, got their own rifles at a young age, hunted after school, shot rats at the dump, you get the idea - they were everywhere. How many mass shootings occurred then?
When I grew up, they were more restricted - the 68 GCA had passed barring under 18 sales and limiting firearms dealers. My friends still hunted after school sometimes and several trucks in the high school parking lot would have a rifle in the back window. Shooting comps were not an activity where I lived but they existed. Again, how many shootings were there in that timeframe?
OK, flash forward to todays school kids. We have zero tolerence on "weapons" in schools - kids have been suspended for bringing butter knives. Rifle Team - long gone. Thanks to the brady bunch and PETA hunting isn't allowed to be mentioned. Even think about firearms in school and you'll probably be expelled. Hell, kids are disciplined for pointing their fingers at each other and yelling "bang".
By your standards, since we've taken huge steps to eliminate the "gun culture" today the streets of 1944 should have run red with blood while today kids should be playing marbles or some other non violent game.
suspect a lot of them wouldn't be able to steal a car if it were0 locked and properly secured. There's a certain amount of skill in that.
That's only become true in the last few years. Alarms and ignition disablers, both factory and aftermarket, means it now takes quite a bit of knowledge to get the expensive cars. Prior to that it was a trivial exercise. This brings us to point two:
Not much is required to threaten someone with a gun and take their keys.
Exactly, however the risk to both parties increases. Carjacking came about because of the items installed above, alarms and ignition disablers. When people could just drive off with them, they did.
And actually I think for most criminals the last thing they want is to take a hostage.
I believe that too, I think they'd rather just take the car. I'm afraid that the escalation to remote trackers and disablers however will cause an escalation in theft tactics. Now, you can leave them on the street and get away, once these become more common that won't be an option.
I'm not trying to justify theft or say you shouldn't be allowed to protect your stuff. Auto theft is expensive for everyone but I'd rather stop the arms race now before we're driving around with flamethrowers or the like.
In Washington DC when the orange alert hit last week in certain areas they were stopping everyone at random and searching their cars. No suspicion of anything, just fishing. Welcome to Amerika.
Da, and the system is good, no?
I've been out of the country for the last few years, due to come back in july. While I've tried to keep up, I'm left wondering how many things like this will surprise me.
I doubt most car-jackers want to become hostage-takers.
I doubt most car-jackers wanted to become armed robbers - I assume they were quite happy stealing cars while they were unattended.
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I doubt most car-jackers want to become hostage-takers. No reason why the presence of the car owner should prevent the police from accessing the speed limiter.
Technically true, but, with car jackers, you're standing on the sidewalk as I'm speeding away, there's nothing preventing a phone call. If I've taken you hostage, do you really think I'm going to let you call anyone?